What is the best thing about nursing???

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I love love love the fact that i made a difference in someone's life. Plus we get paid for what i would do for free for any person on the street. what makes you wake up each day and happy to be a nurse?

Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.

this is a great thread! I love nursing because they are so many different paths you can take as a nurse. Nursing isn't just about being at the bedside. You can be just about anywhere. I love making a difference whether it is saving someone life (a favorite) or educating someone. :)

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Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.
That's your high point of nursing, having a mean patient say thanks? ???

It just shows me that even when I think that nothing I do is making a difference, that really it is. It would have been easy for me to take on the same attitude that patient was giving me and and be mean right back. There are many other high points, but it is things like that, that really show me that my attitude makes a difference.

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On the plus side, I have a job for life.

On the down side, I have a job for life...

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Specializes in MedSurg, Ortho, Neuro, StepDown, Rehab.

The very best thing about nursing in 11 years - well I am an upbeat person with a lovable personality (that is my greatest asset) - so the best thing about nursing for me would be meeting patients and getting to know them.

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Celery.. forgive my ignorance...just what is Press Gainey??? (hey...Im Scottish!)

They are the company that McDonaldizes our profession.

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Specializes in midwifery, NICU.
They are the company that McDonaldizes our profession.

Cheers for replyin to me, but is that what runs your health system??? Sorry, still dont get what it is? :uhoh21:

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Cheers for replyin to me, but is that what runs your health system??? Sorry, still dont get what it is? :uhoh21:

It is a group of "customer satisfaction survey" people that gets management to focus on trivial things (such as how fast a water pitcher gets filled from the time the call light is pressed) rather than on important things (such as adequate staffing and stocking adequate supplies). Hospitals pay through the nose for this information and then they use it to institute ridiculous policies that have nothing to do with safe patient care. It shifts the focus of what we do from providing safe and competent health care to making the "customer" happy at any cost.

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